Champs-Elysees Gestapo headquarters shooting

The Champs-Elysees Gestapo headquarters shooting occurred in late 1940 during World War II. French Resistance leader Margot Bonnaire sent Sean Devlin to rescue Resistance member Yosef Bryman from the Gestapo headquarters on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, which he successfully did following a shootout.

Bryman, who had been running wiretaps on German bases in Paris for Bonnaire, was captured by the Germans and sent to Gestapo headquarters for interrogation. Bonnaire knew that Bryman was not a strong man and would be easily intimidated, so she sent Devlin to rescue him. Devlin initially sought to disguise himself as a German soldier and infiltrate the building, but the German soldiers saw through his disguise as he approached Bryman's cell, so Devlin went in guns blazing. He succeeded in rescuing Bryman before escaping with him, and the two made it back to the Resistance base in the Bois de Boulogne.